Example sentences of "we would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 2 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |
| 3 | I I do n't think , we had a matron who was extremely strict and I do n't think we would 've dared to say anything to her at all . |
| 4 | She used to sit behind her desk looking very prim and proper , and er I do n't , I do n't quite honestly think we would 've dared say anything to her at all . |
| 5 | We would 've dropped her back . |
| 6 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 7 | We sat on the bank , dejected , wondering what we would have to do to find ‘ proper ’ trout fishing , such as we had been brought up with in our native land . |
| 8 | I am sorry to be awkward , but I think you will see that these questions must be answered and if we are going to take extreme positions then we would have to do double the home work that the people do who do n't want to . |
| 9 | On the simple computer described above we would have to do something like the following : |
| 10 | that we would have to do that . |
| 11 | The probability is , that given equal weather , other conditions , and price , the average British holidaymaker would prefer to holiday at home : What we would have to do is extend that appeal to people abroad , by service , value and the many unique features which Britain had on offer . |
| 12 | The purchase of externally-sourced catalogue records ( e.g. from OCLC or VTLS ) would not be cost-effective , since so many of our records are unique , or shared only with other specialist botanical libraries not contributing records to these services — we would have to do it all again ourselves , and we lack the manpower resources to do this . |
| 13 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 14 | I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people |
| 15 | ‘ Otherwise we would have given way to the big guy with the muscle to push and not to Joe Public . |
| 16 | The wife of one prominent member of the British community in Seoul said : ‘ We would have hoped she 'd have picked something she had n't worn just a week ago . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Fun '90 ’ is an odd one , in which our favourite old people 's home have gone DANCE — albeit with the cranky individuality we would have hoped from the band . |
| 18 | Announcing the results of the extended talks , Baker said that " clear gains " had been achieved in arms control and trade issues , but achievements on human rights were " not as much as we would have hoped for " . |
| 19 | ‘ Fun '90 ’ is an odd one , in which our favourite old people 's home have gone DANCE — albeit with the cranky individuality we would have hoped from the band . |
| 20 | We would have hoped that the county and district councils would have so organized their selection processes that they could have come to this examination in public fully prepared to argue the merits of geographical location . |
| 21 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 22 | A museum of modern art would mean that we would have to up-grade our holdings and get more important twentieth-century works . |
| 23 | If we did not find it , we would have to lay more water pipes . |
| 24 | If we tried to extend that to all Labour Members rather than to ex-leaders , we would have to debate the issue all week to tempt them to their feet . |
| 25 | I think that given that you were er , you could n't find the basic book that you were expected to read , I thought you , you gave an excellent account of it , I mean , if you had n't told us that you had n't got the book , I do n't think we would have guessed , would we ? |
| 26 | Outgoing Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir was reported on June 27 to have said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv : " I would have carried on autonomy talks for 10 years and meanwhile we would have reached half a million souls in Judea and Samaria [ the West Bank ] … |
| 27 | I think we would have verify that there are Ottery kids taking part in that particular year . |
| 28 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 29 | Four years ago , we would have said of blokes like Cathal Coughlan and Patrick Kane : pop needs more figures like them , spiky , striving , sussed . |
| 30 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |